Cops, hospital workers, teachers and social workers should pay damages when they overreach and violate rights. They should pay personally and at the agency that employs them when they wrongly attack a family. There should be no immunity. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is what we see in abusive child services and police behavior lately.
Paying out for violating people’s rights stops the violations. Employees are more careful because they have skin in the game, and taxpayers get engaged and furious at the loss of revenue for worker and management incompetence.
I agree—there’s definitely a need for a civil suit to bring these despicable, overreaching hospital and social workers the civil penalties they appear to deserve based upon the limited information provided. And the penalties need to be high enough to make sure they never think about doing such things again.